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Wetumka - Dustin, OK

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Overview


Wetumka - Dustin is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 2,480 people and just one neighborhood, Wetumka - Dustin is the 160th largest community in Oklahoma.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Wetumka - Dustin isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Wetumka - Dustin are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wetumka - Dustin is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wetumka - Dustin who work in office and administrative support (24.46%), teaching (8.91%), and management occupations (8.00%).

A relatively large number of people in Wetumka - Dustin telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.20% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Wetumka - Dustin is worth considering.

One downside of living in Wetumka - Dustin, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.41 minutes every day commuting to work.

Wetumka - Dustin is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In Wetumka - Dustin, just 11.89% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Wetumka - Dustin in 2018 was $28,064, which is upper middle income relative to Oklahoma, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,256 for a family of four. However, Wetumka - Dustin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Wetumka - Dustin is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wetumka - Dustin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wetumka - Dustin residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Wetumka - Dustin include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Wetumka - Dustin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Wetumka - Dustin, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.2% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 30.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Wetumka - Dustin are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 29.9% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.3%), and 17.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.9% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (4.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Wetumka - Dustin, OK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (30.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.3%), and residents who report English roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (80.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (10.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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